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Amyoliver85
New Member
6 years ago

Still giving backup tokens during COVID?

I live in a place where we are still being forced to work from home and won’t be out from under the pandemic for a while. Where I live, basically everyone has to be on HughesNet (rural community) so t...
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MarkJFine
Professor
6 years ago
GabeU wrote:

Slower speed would actually cause you to use less data during a given time period, not more.

If the slower 'throughput' was due to packet resends you would appear to use more data. There could be many reasons for packet resends from network time outs to disrupted/intermittently blocked radio reception to a misaligned dish.

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
6 years ago
MarkJFine wrote:
GabeU wrote:

Slower speed would actually cause you to use less data during a given time period, not more.

If the slower 'throughput' was due to packet resends you would appear to use more data. There could be many reasons for packet resends from network time outs to disrupted/intermittently blocked radio reception to a misaligned dish.

Very true, but with the slowdown being time related it's likely caused by the same reason it slows down for many of us during the day, which is an increase in system load.